Grants
Terra Foundation Strategic Initiatives are designed to support emerging needs in the field. Through this program, the foundation can support evolving ideas and programs while deepening relationships and generating combined impact.
ICAA staff survey rare materials related to Latinx art at the Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024. Photo: Junior Fernandez, MFAH
Support is offered for immediate needs as well as for sustained, multi-year investments that may fall outside our annual grantmaking cycles. The grants can provide capacity support over time, as well as support projects that require flexibility in implementation time and space due to the need for testing and refinement.
We seek projects that:
This initiative program is invitation-only and adaptive by design. Our core application grant programs support many partners in the field, and we also recognize the need to embrace the ideas and creativity of the American art ecosystem in more nimble ways.
ICAA staff survey rare materials related to Latinx art at the Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2024. Photo: Junior Fernandez, MFAH
October 11, 2022, at Rough Draft, a community bar and bookstore located in uptown Kingston, New York, Forge Project Executive Director & Chief Curator Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) joined artist and Ma’s House Studio founder Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock) for an intimate conversation on new New York-based initiatives focusing on Indigenous arts and culture, making space for Native kinship, and re-building community in the region.
Big Soldier family (Iowa Tribe) reunited with their grandfather’s breechcloth at First Americans Museum, 2023 [NMAI 027462.000]. Photo by James Pepper Henry.
WINIKO: Reunions challenges the idea that institutionally collected objects no longer have familial ties to cultural communities. Our goal is to identify a core practice for working with the tribal nations and their citizens that can be modeled and shared.
The project allows us to tell the full story of the Driskell Center’s history; its secondary aim is to inventory and make accessible an incoming gift of papers from the collection of Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario. Both projects allow the Center to continue serving as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and the wider community, ensuring that the narrative of Black art is documented and celebrated for generations to come.
We support projects that may benefit from convening groups at the foundation’s space in Giverny, France, as another initiative program.
Repose as Resistance, Giverny, June 28–July 1, 2023. Mawena Yehouessi leads a session on research, critical texts in her research.
The Stories We Carry, collection reinstallation, Seattle Museum of Art, copyright: Chloe Collyer
“How can we gather now?,” March 31–April 2, 2023, produced by Washington Project for the Arts, co-directed by Asad Raza & Prem Krishnamurthy, symposium attendee Anisa Olufemi asks a question during Stefanie Hessler’s keynote lecture, photo by McKenzie Grant-Gordon courtesy of Washington Project for the Arts.
Installation view of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962. Photo: David Heald. Courtesy Grey Art Museum, New York University
New Art School Modality module Arts Writing / Writing About Art, 2024
